Conan: About the fact that I have a black brother

"How rude! I've spoiled her." Akizuki Michiyo returned to her serious and calm state, "Let's continue."

"I didn't expect Miss Qiuyue to be so lively." Lin Xiaochen recalled, "I always felt that she was very reserved when we met a few times before."

"She's just pretending. If you talk to her for a while, her true colors will show." Akizuki Michiyo said, "You're such a bully. I'm by your side, so don't be too bold."

"I see." Uehara Yui took out two rosters from her briefcase. They were photocopies of the roster she had found in the archives of Nagano High School yesterday. "Please take a look and see if you have any impression of the two students I just mentioned."

"Okay." Akizuki Michiyo took it and looked through it carefully. After a long time, she put one of the pictures down. "Except for Shuiyue Yanxiao and Murakami Qiuyi you two mentioned, I do remember the other students. However, they were all my students six years ago, and the genders of some of them are wrong."

Uehara Yui took back the two sheets of paper: "This is a copy of the original document from the archives. There can't be any mistakes."

"Really?" Akizuki Michiyo said without a trace of doubt, "I won't be wrong. Although I can't remember every student I taught immediately, as long as I see their name, I can remember their faces... This is probably my instinct as a teacher."

"You must be a very responsible teacher." Lin Xiaochen took over the conversation, "Would it be convenient for your husband to come back?"

"Okay, I will contact him if I need anything." Akizuki Michiyo affirmed.

"In fact, if you are worried about the impact on your husband's career, we can issue a letter of cooperation," added Yui Uehara.

Akizuki Michiyo shook her head: "No, let him come in person. Nothing is more important than my daughter's matter."

"Okay, then we'll leave first. Thank you very much for your cooperation." Lin Xiaochen and the other man looked at each other and stood up together. "We'll contact you again if we need anything."

"Okay." Akizuki Michiyo stood up to see her off, and Akizuki Ci also ran out of the room.

Uehara Yui saw her and said, "Little sister Qiuyue, you must be careful during this period."

"Okay, police officer sister." Qiu Yueci smiled sweetly.

The two pushed the door and left.

The soundproofing of the concierge's office was not that good. As soon as the door was closed, Lin Xiaochen and the others heard Qiu Yueci's sticky but curious voice.

"(Chinese) Mom, what were you talking about just now? You said you would tell me - Mom, I'm hungry and want to eat spareribs, okay~"

"(Chinese) Asked a few questions about your roommate, nothing else - OK, OK, spare ribs, I'll go out and buy them now, okay?"

"(Chinese) Hey, don't you have any at home? Then forget it..."

The two people's voices gradually became quieter, and they must have walked away.

Uehara Yui couldn't bear to hear the conversation between the two, but she intuitively judged that Qiu Yueci was acting like a spoiled child.

Lin Xiaochen heard it clearly and sighed that in front of their mother, everyone is just a child.

The two got back into the car and planned to visit the families of the three deceased.

On the way, Lin Xiaochen sighed: "Sure enough, fairy tales are all lies."

"Hmm?" Uehara Yui didn't understand what he meant. "What did you say?"

"Nothing... We're almost at Shuiyue's house - my god, this road is so hard to drive on." Lin Xiaochen turned the steering wheel and the car drove onto the muddy dirt road - the snow that was compressed into ice was melted by the sun and splashed up mixed with mud. It was really not a good place to drive.

"Hayasi, please pull over and let's walk over." Uehara Yui looked at the increasingly narrow road and said, "It may be difficult to turn around ahead."

"Okay." Lin Xiaochen parked the car in a slightly drier place.

The two got out of the car and walked on the muddy road towards Shuiyue's house. Along the way, they carefully avoided the mud puddles and stagnant water to avoid dirtying their shoes and clothes.

Unlike Qiuyue's family's small Western-style house, Shuiyue's family is a typical He family residence.

Lin Xiaochen stepped forward and rang the doorbell first. Soon, the wooden door was pushed open, and a middle-aged woman in an apricot kimono came out to greet them. She was tall and thin, as if she could be blown down by a gust of wind. Her high cheekbones gave people a sharp and mean feeling.

The apricot-colored kimono looked a little loose on her, as if it didn't fit her well.

The woman had a serious face. Different from the natural calmness of Akizuki Michiyo, Mrs. Suigetsu's seriousness seemed more like she was stretched to the limit and had to do so.

She held the door frame with one hand, her voice a little hoarse: "Who are you?"

Upon seeing this, the two men quickly showed their police IDs and stated their identities: "We are the police officers in charge of this case, and we have come here specifically to understand the situation."

Uehara Yui said sincerely, with a hint of concern in her eyes, "Please accept my condolences. We will do our best to find out the truth. Please cooperate with our investigation."

Mrs. Shuiyue stared at Uehara Yui quietly. Time seemed to freeze at this moment, and the air around her became unusually heavy. Finally, after a long and suffocating silence, Mrs. Shuiyue uttered two words softly: "Come in."

The three of them knelt on the tatami. There was a faint musty smell in the room. Mrs. Shuiyue and Shuiyue Chun knelt opposite the two of them: "What do you want to ask?"

Uehara Yui: "Ah, these are just minor issues. Do you know anything about your daughter's interpersonal relationships?"

"I'm not sure, I guess he only interacts with classmates." Mizutsuki Haru said calmly, but there was a flash of disgust in his eyes.

Uehara Yui was not discouraged: "Then do you know the relationship between your daughter's dormitories?"

"I don't know. She never told me these things." Shui Yuechun still shook her head calmly. "If it's about her classmates or her school life, you don't have to ask me anymore. I don't know anything."

Uehara Yui: "...Well, what is Ms. Shuiyue like at home? What's her personality like?"

"She's so sloppy and terrible. I've never seen anyone so lazy." Shui Yuechun said without hesitation, "Now that you ask me this, I remember that her counselor came to me and asked about her living habits. Is she having a conflict with her roommate? She deserves it."

Uehara Yui was a little embarrassed: "Madam...did you and Miss Shuiyue...have a quarrel?"

"Argued? No, sorry to embarrass you, I'm not familiar with her." Shui Yuechun said coldly, "What happens to her has nothing to do with me."

"If I could, I would rather she had never been born."